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Category Archives: awards
PEN/Faulkner nominees announced
The five nominees for the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction were announced yesterday. The national award honors the best American fiction each year. Four of the nominees are familiar faces in the literary awards world, but everyone is talking about … Continue reading
Interviews with Daniel Handler & John Corey Whaley!
Earlier this week we posted about this year’s Youth Media Awards, and since then we’ve been lucky enough to interview two of the honorees! First up: Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, talks to us about Why We Broke Up, an … Continue reading
2012 Youth Media Awards!
Fans of kid lit look forward to the Youth Media Awards every year, in which the American Library Association announces the year’s best children’s book authors and illustrators in a variety of categories. This morning, the awards were announced in … Continue reading
National Book Award winners featured in BookPage
The National Book Awards were announced last night, and the winners include several BookPage favorites: Jesmyn Ward won for her second novel, Salvage the Bones, which takes place during Hurricane Katrina. Carla Jean Whitley reviewed the novel in the September … Continue reading
Lauren Myracle: at the center of a media storm
I met Lauren Myracle at a crowded book party in New Orleans last summer, during the American Library Association’s annual convention. She grabbed my arm and insisted that I have a glass of champagne immediately. I had no idea who … Continue reading
And the Nobel Prize in Literature goes to . . .
At 1 p.m. Central European Time (aka 6 a.m. in Nashville), we learned that the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer won the Nobel Prize in Literature “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality.” Tranströmer, 80, is … Continue reading
Five young writers to watch
The National Book Foundation announced the “5 under 35″ today, and the honorees include a couple surprises. The main surprises on the list are Shani Boianjiu, whose novel The People of Forever Are Not Afraid will not be published until … Continue reading
Happy about the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
You probably already know that Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad, her quirky novel described in BookPage as “a series of pastiches that deftly and lyrically illustrates the ways people and … Continue reading
A “Wow!”-worthy Orange Prize longlist
Some of my favorite novels (We Need to Talk About Keven; Bel Canto) have received the UK’s Orange Prize, so I always pay attention when the nominees are announced. The award honors fiction written by a woman and written in … Continue reading
Usual suspects and surprising selections mingle on LA Times Book Prize finalist list
Both proven prize winners and relatively new faces appear on the list of LA Times Book Award finalists for 2010, which were announced on Tuesday. Books were nominated in 10 categories: Biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum … Continue reading
Stiff competition at the Edgar Awards
Today is the 202nd anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe—the perfect day to announce the nominees for the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Awards (honoring the best in the mystery genre). You can see the full list on the … Continue reading
7 Questions with . . . Clare Vanderpool AND Erin E. Stead!
After last week’s Newbery and Caldecott announcements at ALA Midwinter, we have been dying to hear from the big winners. Clare Vanderpool won the Newbery Medal for Moon Over Manifest, the Depression-era story of 12-year-old Abilene Tucker, and Erin E. … Continue reading
What’s your favorite award-winning children’s book?
This morning’s edition of Reading Corner highlights several award-winning children’s books—from the recent Caldecott winner A Sick Day for Amos McGee to Black Radishes, a new middle grade novel that was named a Sydney Taylor Honor Book for its authentic … Continue reading
